Robert P. J. DAY says:
According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
1 --- gdb-6.1.1-dist/readline/configure 2003-05-27 18:29:47.000000000 -0500
2 +++ gdb-6.1.1/readline/configure 2004-08-09 14:20:23.000000000 -0500
6 echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for mbstate_t" >&5
7 +echo $ECHO_N "bash_cv_have_mbstate_t=$bash_cv_have_mbstate_t" >&6
8 echo $ECHO_N "checking for mbstate_t... $ECHO_C" >&6
9 +if test "${bash_cv_have_mbstate_t+set}" != set; then
10 + bash_cv_have_mbstate_t=yes
11 + echo $ECHO_N "WARNING!! forcing to yes!!! $ECHO_C" >&6
13 if test "${bash_cv_have_mbstate_t+set}" = set; then
14 echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6